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  • State’s roadside billboard program should be junked

    New directional signs are unnecessary and unappealing By:John Patten They’re new, they’re blue and they’re different.    No, not a new pain killing medicine – although they’re giving some municipal officials headaches – they’re the new "LOGO" signs and the New Jersey DOT has been placing them on state highways.    The signs were authorized by the…

  • Borough may begin rental inspections

    ‘We feel we should be able to go in there. Long-term tenants would reap the benefits of this.’ Harry Wetterskog, Hightstown Construction Official By: Mark Moffa        HIGHTSTOWN – The Borough Council began a discussion last week that may lead to yearly inspections of all rental units in the borough.    Currently, only facilities with four…

  • Bomb threats won’t always empty schools

    New school policy will end automatic evacuations of classrooms By: Michael Arges        The East Windsor Regional school board voted July 24 to end the district’s policy of automatically evacuating school buildings when a bomb threat is received.    The new policy calls for the principal and chief school administrator to decide on a case-by-case basis…

  • Former Lion of the Year dies

    By:            Nicholas L. Altieri, 85, of Monroe, died Wednesday, July 20, at home. He also is a former resident of Cranbury.    Born in Long Island, N.Y., he lived in Bayonne and Hightstown before moving to Monroe. He received his bachelor of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Newark College of Engineering, a master’s…

  • TANGENTS: Climbing back into the swing of things

    By:John Saccenti    We have a high-tech papoose at home. It looks like a backpack but instead of holding gear, it holds our daughter. It’s got a convenient little pocket that fits her body, holes for her legs, and just enough room on top so that she is safe, but can still have a full view…

  • Legislators join East Windsor battle against DOT signs

    By: Michael Arges    EAST WINDSOR – Council members discussed the township’s ongoing dispute with the state Department of Transportation over the new Tourist Oriented Directional Signing Program at the meeting July 25.    The program brought four new signs pointing the way to area businesses to local roads. In a July 13 letter to the DOT…

  • Daniel Bolles

    Member of Hightstown Apollo Lodge 41 By: Staff    HIGHTSTOWN – Daniel E. Bolles, 89, died July 17 at Cranbury Center-Genesis Elder Care.    Born in Plainsboro, he moved to Hightstown in 1955.    Mr. Bolles worked with Walker Gordon Dairy Farms, Plainsboro,and owned Dan’s Sunoco, Hightstown. He retired as a school bus driver and aide with East…

  • Bill may cut school construction taxes

    TheMonroe Township school system may gain as much as $300,000 to $400,000 a year in state aid under the school construction bill signed into law last week by Gov. Christie Whitman. By:Al Wicklund    MONROE — The township school system may gain as much as $300,000 to $400,000 a year in state aid under the school…

  • Property tax bills on way

    By: Jeff Milgram    Property tax bills, delayed by the adoption of the Mercer County budget, will start to go out by the middle of next week, according to Princeton Township Chief Financial Officer John Clawson.    Princeton Borough property owners won’t get their tax bills until the middle of August. And officials in West Windsor aren’t…